Sandy Hook News

This is the front trailer of a tandem tractor-trailer truck which was involved in a one-vehicle accident about 3 am Wednesday on Church Hill Road, near the Exit 10 ramps for westbound Interstate 84.

A tractor trailer accident on Church Hill Road early Wednesday morning sent one man to the hospital and closed multiple lanes of traffic.

Emergency crews closed Church Hill Road and cleared the trailers and cab of the tandem Roadway Express truck Wednesday morning.

Mark Liano, who is a spills inspector for the state Department of Environmental Protection, gauges the environmental damage that occurred in a Sandy Hook stream after a home heating system failed and some heating fuel found its way into that watercourse.

Kate Mayer "is awesome," I am told, and should be awarded my Good Egg Award. As a Books on Wheels volunteer, Kate delivers library books to shut-ins around Newtown and Sandy Hook.

Stonea s Throw Farm in Bethel will be a regular this year at the market, providing fresh produce like the radishes, scallions, and carrots shown here.

At a June 18 Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing, landscape architect Keith Beaver of Didona Associates of Danbury explains the site landscaping features of a commercial building proposed for 164 Mt Pleasant Road.

After spending six years trying to find the soft spot in the resolve of Newtown's land use agencies to protect the public health and safety in the center of Sandy Hook, a Danbury developer finally found what he was looking for on June 1, not in Newtown, but in a New Britain courtroom of the Connecticut Superior Court.

I have a few thoughts about the rage against gay marriage, which has been a keen avenue for the extreme right to decry the rights of the GLBT population.

A Danbury developer, who has long sought to build a condominium complex containing some "affordable housing" on a rugged site in Sandy Hook Center, but who has been repeatedly turned down by town agencies, has won two court appeals that he filed in 2007 over dual rejections of the project by the Planning and Zoning Commission and by the Water and ...

Last year at this time I was sweltering in 100-degree weather. This year, there are nights I still keep my tail wrapped close to my nose for warmth and I feel like I should get out my snorkeling equipment to make it through what seems to be a monsoon season.

Lunching here with two friends recently, we found our conversation sometimes muffled by the babbling of water dancing over rocks below us.

It's soon time to celebrate Newtown's history and its mascot with the annual Rooster Rally, June 13 from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. It will be held along the stretch of Main Street in front of Edmond Town Hall.

Up On The Woofa ' American Bulldog Rescued By Andrew Gorosko From Perilous Perch This American bulldog, who goes by the name Trigger, stranded himself on a small roof above a doorway at a Dayton Street home on the afternoon of Sunday, May 31.

The day I got a call from Alan was a day I'll never forget. He saw a mention of my baking company in a national food magazine, which shall remain nameless, and decided to give me a call to see where I was located, what my hours were, etc...except he lives in Florida.

Lenie Urbinaa TMs bright tie-dye shirt is a splash of color against the pale brown and tan llamas Saturday during the Great Pootatuck Duck Race.

Members of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company participate during a mock crash at Newtown High School on Tuesday, May 19, where victims had to be rescued from two vehicles.

The stone piers of this steel bridge that carried rail traffic across the Housatonic River are still visible from the bridge crossing over at the end of Glen Road.

Ed Miklaszewski learned the hard way that climbing a ladder with one hand full of shingles and the other holding nails is not a great idea.

Corinne Concialdi, a Newtown resident who works in a doctor's office, couldn't imagine her mother, Cora Mazzilli, living in a nursing home or assisted-living facility.